I'm in the back garden, dead-heading fuchsias at summer's end. Around me are poppies and the perfume of stargazer lilies. I'm thinking of how this summer of death has so quickly passed. My friend's father, dead suddenly at his desk.
Another friend's mother with cancer of the pancreas, stopped eating, died with grace. My mother. And her slow dying. Her mind gone, she sleeps all day.
Imagines, when awake, she's on a cruise ship. Music and dancing Under the stars. Stargazer lilies everywhere. Perhaps she could waltz. Not this summer. Not this. Summer. 12. Sleep
The evening hangs beneath the moon
A silver thread on darkened dune
with closing eyes and resting head
i know that sleep is coming soon
Upon my pillow, safe in bed
a thousand pictures fill my head
I cannot sleep my minds a flight
And yet my limbs seem made of lead
If there are noises in the night
A frightening shadow, flickering light
Then I surrender unto sleep
Where clouds of dreams give second sight
What dreams may come both dark and deep
Of flying wings and soaring leap
As I surrender unto sleep
As I surrender unto sleep
Poem Comparison
These two poems used some poetic devices that are the same, and some that are different. Both poems used repetition as one of the poetic devices. ( see in red) Also both poems are trying to make death sounds better than it is, they are using the euphemism. And imagery are involed in both poems too, they are both creating a image of death: poppies, moonlight, bed... And one of the poem has a personification (see in green). And somehow there are also metaphors in the poem. But overall, I think both poems are creating an image of death, I can picture a few things while reading these poems.
The theme for these poems are pretty much the same, they are both about death. Expect one of the poem is about the euphemism of death "sleep", but the main idea is still pretty much the same. Both of the poem are talking about the sadness of death in their own way but in different structure, "sleep" is more discribing how death could feel like it's writen in first person, so the author is talking about how death will feel like how it will turn out to be, but "Summer" is writen in first person too but it's not about how the author feels about death, it's about how the author feels about his/her family and friends death, so more I can feel is the pain of death instead of how dying feels like. "Sleep" structure is way more metaphored, the whole poem had never used the word died, but in "Summer" it had been mentioned a few times.
I'm in the back garden,
dead-heading fuchsias
at summer's end.
Around me are poppies
and the perfume of stargazer lilies.
I'm thinking of how this summer
of death has so quickly passed.
My friend's father,
dead suddenly at his desk.
Another friend's mother
with cancer of the pancreas,
stopped eating, died with grace.
My mother. And her slow dying.
Her mind gone,
she sleeps all day.
Imagines, when awake,
she's on a cruise ship.
Music and dancing
Under the stars.
Stargazer lilies everywhere.
Perhaps she could waltz. Not this summer.
Not this.
Summer.
12. Sleep
The evening hangs beneath the moon
A silver thread on darkened dune
with closing eyes and resting head
i know that sleep is coming soon
Upon my pillow, safe in bed
a thousand pictures fill my head
I cannot sleep my minds a flight
And yet my limbs seem made of lead
If there are noises in the night
A frightening shadow, flickering light
Then I surrender unto sleep
Where clouds of dreams give second sight
What dreams may come both dark and deep
Of flying wings and soaring leap
As I surrender unto sleep
As I surrender unto sleep
Poem Comparison
These two poems used some poetic devices that are the same, and some that are different. Both poems used repetition as one of the poetic devices. ( see in red) Also both poems are trying to make death sounds better than it is, they are using the euphemism. And imagery are involed in both poems too, they are both creating a image of death: poppies, moonlight, bed... And one of the poem has a personification (see in green). And somehow there are also metaphors in the poem. But overall, I think both poems are creating an image of death, I can picture a few things while reading these poems.
The theme for these poems are pretty much the same, they are both about death. Expect one of the poem is about the euphemism of death "sleep", but the main idea is still pretty much the same. Both of the poem are talking about the sadness of death in their own way but in different structure, "sleep" is more discribing how death could feel like it's writen in first person, so the author is talking about how death will feel like how it will turn out to be, but "Summer" is writen in first person too but it's not about how the author feels about death, it's about how the author feels about his/her family and friends death, so more I can feel is the pain of death instead of how dying feels like. "Sleep" structure is way more metaphored, the whole poem had never used the word died, but in "Summer" it had been mentioned a few times.